Michael on Media
Michael Rosenblum has been writing about the media since 1988. His work and ideas have appeared in The Guardian, The Huffington Post, Ilkeston Life and many other publications.
He has been blogging regularly for the past 35 years on this subject. Having taught media studies at Columbia University, NYU and now the University of Oxford, he is considered an expert on this subject.
Let’s Put the ‘Public’ back in Public Broadcasting
Cutting edge… 1962 Yesterday, while I was sitting at my kitchen table typing out my angry screed about Gwen Ifill, I was also listening to NPR, as I do every morning. NPR happened to be running their annual beg-a-thon,...
Read moreThe Nobility Is Annoyed
Oh no, Ms Ifill… PBS’ Gwen Ifill is annoyed. Some ‘person’ is questioning her right to rule over the peasants. This ‘person’, who Ms Ifill refuses to call by name, is Prof. Jay Rosen of NY University. He wrote...
Read moreAre Universities Next?
OK. Who here is PC based and who is Mac? We all know that newspapers and TV networks are bloated and increasingly unproductive in the digital world. Big buildings, overstaffed, trapped with a 1950’s mentality of how things get...
Read moreBBC Natural History – Bootcamp Results
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuI4eTw_xxI[/youtube] Lucinda Axellrod [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZkRklAsEEg[/youtube] Rosie Gloyn [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKuDA0Uq874[/youtube] Miles [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PemZy_SR_yY[/youtube] Elly We have just completed our first BBC bootcamps in Bristol, UK for the Natural History Unit. These are the same folks who bring you Blue Planet or Meerkat Manor....
Read moreNow That’s Productivity!
Like building a new building… without the building… We’re here wrapping up a week of intensive training at The BBC’s Natural History Unit in Bristol. Everyone is in the big conference room, beavering away on their final projects. In...
Read moreThe Wasted Potential
Don’t look at the camera… We are spending this week with The BBC in Bristol, in the UK. We’re running a bootcamp for 40 BBC producers, directors, associate producers, researchers and God only know what other positions they hold....
Read moreGet Out Of The House.. Now!!!
Get out of the house now!!! Did you ever watch a horror movie. The Texas Chainsaw Killer kind of movie, where the young, good looking group of friends has their car break down in the middle of nowhere and...
Read moreBack to The BBC
I spent five years training more then 750 journalists to be VJs at The BBC between 2000 and 2005. Now, five years later, we are back at The Beeb, running another pilot bootcamp. This time we are in Bristol...
Read moreMaking YouTube Pay
How do you make this pay? YouTube uploads an astonishing number of videos, more than 23 hours of video every minute. People also look at an astonishing number of videos – more than 1 billion views a day. As...
Read moreConcentra Award Winners
Award winner Adam Ellick, NY Times Last week, in Antwerp, we awarded the Fifth Annual Concentra Award for Videojournalism. This year’s winner was Adam Ellick, a videojournalist for The New York Times. We liked Ellick’s work for a number...
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